By Donna.

July has been a hot one, with temperatures in the 30 degrees plus and humidity in the 90’s all month. We are extremely thankful for air conditioning, swimming pools and occasional rain, without which we would be of all men most miserable! Through it all we have stayed strong, all except for Jorge that is, who was attacked with a powerful virus. This put him out of action for about a week with fever, cough, sleeplesness and nervousness to top it off. Thank God he is pulling out of it now! This illness has pushed us to take steps to be more diligent in preventing dehydration, as it is easy to forget to drink enough water in this hot climate. Also, tweaking our meal plans in order to maintain a healthy diet has been a priority.  We thank the Lord for His abundant mercy and power to heal! We thank  everyone who has helped us to fight this battle with prayer and practical health tips! Teamwork!!

At last we were able to celebrate Gloria’s High School Graduation! The commencement ceremony was held at home and we were blessed to have the entire family together, many of whom are distinguished alumni of the Soares’ Gateway Homeschools endeavor! Gloria has worked tirelessly the past four years, and in particular her senior year in order to fulfill all her high school requirements, take college entrance exams and make college applications. She has also been a tremendous blessing to the ministry, not only Wordproject but various other projects over the years in Africa. On top of that, she is a critical element of our home’s inspiration, continually contributing with her culinary skills, piano music, artistic and inspirational ideas! It has been  an amazing four years and we wish her a blessed and fruitful future in her pursuit of medical studies wherever that may lead her!

Sweet little Isabel, aka Bel Bel has turned two ! How the years have flown!  She is already singing up a storm! Some of her favorites are “Yes, Jesus Loves Me” , “Incy Wincy Spider”,  “Rain, Rain Go Away”, and of course “Happy Birthday To You”! She is so enthusiastic about life, it is contagious! It is a pleasure to hold a conversation with her and she has no qualms in stating whether or not she likes something!  We pray that she has a blessed year and a safe trip to Portugal with mom and dad this month!

All at Gloria’s Graduation

Bel Bel’s Birthday

Emanuel and Mandy and sweet Bel Bel (2)

New Languages:

We have worked on several new Asian languages this month: Nepali, Burmese (Myanmar), Turkmen, Cebuano, Fiji, Aceh and Mongol. The full Bible text for these languages is now available in our pages, and the verse selection, with essential verses on different topics, such as Prayer, Faith, Fighting Fear, Healing, Peace, etc., is being prepared right now and is soon to be available too. Preparing these languages to fit our format takes long hours and we spent great part of our month working on them. We are blessed to be able to reach out to people in far-out lands like these.

Aceh page

Burmese page

Mongol Index page

Nepali Index page

Cantonese Recordings

Received first files of the Cantonese New Testament. We have a long ways to go but this is encouraging. After struggling for several months, Eddy is now making progress. It is not easy to keep the vision thus  we keep praying for progress with this project

Recording equipment being used by Eddy

Mozambique

From Mozambique we received news from Patrick and his wife and they are doing a great work with the School of Missions. Our desire is to get some of our Audio Bibles there for their use and we hope we can find a channel to be able to send some soon. Here is a testimony from their Newsletter:

“I have a spiritual husband. He comes once in awhile; say once a week and sleeps with me just like a physical husband. After he has done this, I always feel very low and spiritually broken. I have struggled with this issue for many years and it seems there is no help and I do not know what to do at all. I have talked to some people and I have not been helped at all. This makes me feel low always and disturbs my walk with the Lord”

“This is when counseling began. The main problems were identified during the course of Spiritual warfare.  Each student narrated their journey of life, looking for loopholes in the past where the enemy might have taken advantage, looking for wounds and courses of bitterness,  un-confessed sin, people they had not forgiven…and it was during this time when it was noted how she had gotten into this spiritual marriage. Through confession, inner healing, and ministry of deliverance, she was set free from this bondage. The spiritual man left completely and never came back again. She felt a freedom she had never felt before in her life. It was clear that this is part of the reason the Lord sent her to this training.”

Typical Mozambique village

Audio Bibles we left in Mozambique.